You are one of my campaign's top money-raisers. I appreciate that, and no one can say I forget my friends. In 1987, I appointed you to the expressway authority. And my administration created a state HRS job for you that now pays $46,340.

But I can neither explain nor condone what I see here on the comptroller's report. By all appearances, this amounts to falsifying records.

Did you think no one would notice that you went on expressway trips when you claimed to be working on state time? And I certainly don't want people to think you're out raising money for me while you're on the public payroll.

Let's examine the particulars.

The comptroller has found 11 occasions of conflict between time sheets for your state job and travel logs for the authority. No one can be in two places at once. To cite two worrisome examples: Last November, you went to Texas to look at a toll-collecting system for roads. Yet you put down both days as having worked at your HRS job. This is the kind of thing that confirms people's worst fears about state employees, that they are being paid but not really doing their jobs.

(And of all times for this to happen, B.J. - at the height of the controversy over HRS' handling of child abuse cases. We were telling outraged citizens then that we couldn't even afford to hire more caseworkers. What will they think now?) You did the same thing in October when you went to Chicago. But that was the time I had my fund-raiser there. That looks as if you were abusing both your state job and your expressway position to help me!

The comptroller also found that on a trip you took to Spain, you claimed a $50-a-day expense allowance from the expressway authority and also reimbursement for actual expenses. Are you unaware that state law prohibits such double-dipping?

I could go on with some other problems, but that isn't necessary.

As governor, I must respond to what the investigators have found. For that reason, I'm asking that you resign from the expressway authority and from your state job - immediately.

Florida cannot condone two standards of conduct - one for regular state employees and another for people such as you who are close to my administration.

We'll talk about your future with the Martinez campaign at another time.